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Advanced File Management provides an intuitive method of managing any type of media or generic files.  Advanced File Management provides a central location to upload files (images, audio, YouTube videos, flash movies, text documents, pdfs,...), and then have the ability to display these files anywhere on your YdW site.   Permissions can be set to make these files available to anyone, to specific users or just a single administrator.

Chat Rooms are a way of communicating by sending text messages to people in the same chat-room in real-time.  No additional software is required. Chat Room uses AJAX to update chats without page reloads. Chat Rooms are nodes that provide access to chats and chat archives. This solution does not support pop-up windows or invitations.

Enable your faculty, researchers, postdocs, and graduate students to collaborate with colleagues to produce research documents, book chapters, or even entire volumes. YdW Collaborative Book Author is a wiki-esque application that provides your academic community with a space on the web to write, organize, and upload documents as they participate in the collaborative research process.

Build community and enhance existing personal and professional relationships within your department or institution. YdW Community Forums provide a space on your website where individual members of your academic community may pose questions, engage others in discussion, or organize events. Your Community Forums may be public, private, or both and are seamlessly woven into the fabric of your YdW installation.

Custom Flash Headers will help attract new students, keep current students coming back, and invite potential funders to visit your YdW site. You'll work directly with a Yellow dotWorks designer to conceive a header/splash page that reflects the scholarly interests and aesthetic preferences of your academic community.

Dedicated Nodes provide an input form for information on your site. They allow for easy update of content areas. A dedicated node creates a page and can also be used in combination with other dedicated nodes to create splash pages, landing pages, or headers or footers for list pages. They provide an area of the site to display specific information pre-formatted. Dedicated nodes can be used in more than one area of the site providing one form to update various locations on your site.

The dedicated node package provides an additional 10 dedicated nodes and seamless integration with your site.

Keep your academic community in the loop with YdW eCommunity Notices. Alumni, graduate students, faculty, staff, and others can sign up to be notified by email when news items or events are posted to your website. Administrative staff may also use YdW eCommunity Notices to automatically inform committees of upcoming meetings and important dates.

All YdW installations are copied at the time of install and this copy is kept on a secure server at YdW World Headquarters in case you need to restore the code base or the template in the future. Emergency Restore will email a backup of uploaded files and the database backup to YdW daily, weekly or monthly depending on your preference and can be used to fully restore your YdW installation in case of catastrophe.

Event Organizer is used to efficiently schedule volunteers or participants for events, meetings, and other activities that are sponsored or organized by your department or institution. An intuitive web-based interface guides you through the event creation process, and members of your academic community may sign up or add themselves to the schedule in only 3 clicks right on your YdW website.

LDAP Integration will allow your users to login to your department using their established university username and password. It can also pre-populate some fields in their user profile with information in the LDAP database as well as allow your users to update selected information in the LDAP database.

Multi-Author Blogs provide members of your academic community with a space on your website to publish short articles based on their research, teaching, or other personal interests. Multi-Author Blogs are seamlessly woven into the fabric of your YdW website/CMS. Your site administrator may provide individuals with blogging privileges, or assign blogging privileges to entire groups within your academic community (e.g., faculty blogs).

Multimedia Kit provides an easy-to-use, web-based tool to upload media files (images, audio, YouTube videos, flash movies, text documents, pdfs,...), to photo galleries, video galleries, flash presentations, integrated third party presentations and much more.  Media may be made available to the public, kept private or made available to only certain members of your community.

News and Event Aggregator can be used to host news items and upcoming events from any source on the web that provides an RSS feed. Your news and events content is seamlessly integrated into your YdW website/CMS in various locations throughout your website. Possible configurations include a U.S. News sidebar block, an Upcoming Professional Meetings page, a World News sidebar block, etc.

Publication Manager will help you to organize and host publications and research documents on your YdW website/CMS. Increase the visibility of your academic community by providing site visitors with access to this scholarly material.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Many Web sites use this protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers.  By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http: If confidential documents are going to be uploaded or downloaded via your website/CMS, SSL will be a vital component of your security. All pages or a subset of pages can be protected via SSL. 

This Bonus Solution requires additional third party software purchase by end user (not provided by YdW).

Survey and Form Creator enables members of your academic community to create web-based surveys and forms for research projects, class projects, events, etc. Data collected by your surveys and forms can be downloaded as .csv documents for use in statistical programs such as SPSS and SAS or spreadsheet programs such as Excel.

Virtual Notepads provide each member of your academic community with a secure space to upload private files and compose notes, documents, lists, etc. These data are stored in your YdW database and are accessible from any computer with an Internet connection - especially useful for members of your academic community who travel extensively.